Ramifications of using Google Domains to making full use of the CDN?

Hi, @bvillagran. Welcome to our Netlify community site!

If you switched the name servers for the domain to the ones Netlify uses, then you are using our Managed DNS service.

The caveat above does not apply to domains using our Managed DNS service.

The caveat also does not apply if the third-party DNS service (anything besides Managed DNS) supports ALIAS/ANAME/CNAME records for the apex/bare domain.

From what I could find, Google doesn’t support CNAMEs on the apex/bare domain. Again, though, if you switched to the Managed DNS name servers this doesn’t apply.

Finally, regarding transferring a domain directly to Netlify, this isn’t possible. We are not an official domain registrar. We are a reseller using Name.com for the actual registrar. There is more about this here: